You have fallen prey to American exceptionalism: “It isn’t democracy unless it’s American democracy.”

Yes, if more people listened to socialists we would be able to fix most of the problems in the world today.

Capitalism sucks, huh?

Honestly for a very brief moment in 2008 (Obama’s first campaign) “woke” was a very popular term amongst liberals. Then reactionaries started using it as a pejorative and liberals stopped using the term overnight.

If you’re going to talk about class society, you might as well use the Marxist terms: proletariat, petit-bourgeoisie, and bourgeoise.

I don’t know why everyone is avoiding the Marxist terms, as they are far more accurate than low/middle/upper or whatever people are talking about in this thread.

Those wealthy workers are petit-bourgeoisie. They own enough capital so that they no longer have to struggle in the rat race of capitalism, but not enough to be controlling entire industries or multibillion dollar companies like the bourgeoisie.

Do you think being embargoed and blockaded by the majority of the world might have an impact on food availability?

I’m failing to see how militaries existing has anything to do with capitalism starving people to death because it’s not profitable.

Capitalism kills.

Fumes from aviation fuel.

The Israeli state should be dissolved and a new state created that gives equal rights to all, outlaws Zionism, and eradicates the mechanisms of settler-colonialism. I wouldn’t be opposed to reparation payments either.

Nevermind the fact that the car literally tracks everything about you and sends all the data to Tesla HQ. To be fair though, there are no modern cars that meet Mozilla’s privacy standards. Some car companies even track your sexual activity.

If that person is a fascist, then yes. And Cheney was a fucking fascist.

The “Not Voters” were such an insignificantly small portion of voters (ie, people who usually vote but abstained or voted 3rd party in 2024) that even if every one of them voted for Kamala, she still would have lost. Her failure was instead due to the Democrats fundamental refusal to see that the status quo does not work for regular people.

I don’t want to be neighbors with war criminals. The reason we are where we are today is because of collaborators like Harris white-washing the crimes of terrorists like Cheney.

That’s some lib shit right there: The man who illegally started a war, lied to congress to start another war, instituted a mass civilian bombing campaign, tortured innocents, and who left entire countries strewn with toxic waste, unexploded ordnance, and depleted uranium that will cause illness, birth defects, and death for centuries to come is a “warmonger.” You people’s attempt to rehabilitate the Bush criminals is disgusting.

Seriously! Who the hell is colleagues with war criminals?

Yes, and why not? We have nothing to lose but our chains.

How about we seize all their assets and nationalize the companies so that the wealth is owned collectively and benefits everyone instead?

The idea behind end-stage capitalism is that capitalists have, by now, penetrated and seized control of every market in the world. This is important because capitalism requires ever increasing rates of profits or you will be consumed by your competitor. Since there are no longer new labor pools and resource pool discovery is slackening, capitalists no longer have anywhere to expand.

Therefore, capitalists begin turning their attention back home, cutting wages and social safety nets, and resorting to fascism when the people complain.

This is the end stage of capitalism. The point at which capitalists begin devouring their own. Rosa Luxembourg famously posited that at this point, the world can choose “Socialism or Barbarism.” In other words, we can change our economic system, or we can allow the capitalists to sink to the lowest depths of depravity and drag us all down as they struggle to maintain their position.

Of course, if the capitalists manage to get to space, that opens up a whole new wealth of resources, likely delaying the end of their rule.